Data Architect with Product Owner experience (#3737)

N-iX is a software development service company that helps businesses across the globe develop successful software products. During 21 years on the market and by leveraging the capabilities of Eastern Europe talents the company has grown to 2000+ professionals with a broad portfolio of customers in the area of Fortune 500 companies as well as technological start-ups. N-iX has come a long way and increased its presence in nine countries - Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Sweden, Malta, the UK, the US, and Colombia.

We’re seeking a client-facing Data Architect with Product Owner experience to lead the design, discovery, and delivery of data integration and management solutions for our client. In this pivotal role, you will work closely with stakeholders across retail and consumer-facing industries to ensure that client’s data platform solutions are effectively scoped, aligned with business needs, and optimized for long-term value.

You will work with a highly composable SaaS data platform - leveraging existing capabilities, guiding configurations, and ensuring designs are both strategic and executable.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead business discovery workshops to elicit data-related needs, platform constraints, and strategic objectives
• Define scoping documents and high-level design for data products and flows
• Quickly learn the client's proprietary platform and guide their customers and junior team members on the correct way to configure and deploy it to maximize value.
• Guide customers in platform adoption, identifying gaps in configuration, and recommending the use of existing product features (not custom builds)
• Work closely with Chief Architect, Delivery, and Product teams to ensure alignment of platform capabilities and roadmap
• Identify if critical data product components are missing and escalate appropriately
• Collaborate with technical consultants to ensure delivery follows designed data flows and business logic
• Contribute to data modeling discussions and ensure consistency across integrations and platforms
• Act as the primary client-facing design lead, ensuring solutions reflect real business processes and constraints

Experience Required:

• Show a strong understanding of cloud services (especially GCP), various database technologies (SQL vs. NoSQL), data warehousing (BigQuery), data modeling, and architectural patterns (event-driven, microservices).
• Understand core business processes, particularly in the retail and CPG sectors, and be able to model customer and product data effectively.
• Hands-on involvement in data-driven product design or data platform implementation
• Proven ability to translate business requirements into high-level solution design
• Experience with data flow diagrams, entity relationships, and data modeling
• Familiarity with data governance, integration patterns, and event-driven architecture
• Understanding of modern cloud-based data technologies (Azure, GCP, AWS – conceptual knowledge is sufficient)
• Experience working in client-facing consulting or delivery roles
• Ability to challenge requirements, avoid unnecessary customization, and guide toward scalable platform-based approaches

Personality & Mindset:

• Able to spot practical paths forward even in complex environments
• Confident facilitator of workshops and executive discussions
• Strong communicator who can bridge technical and business perspectives
• Comfortable owning ambiguity and driving clarity